I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

Trust undone will lead to heartache and pain. So I ask you to be honest and truthful in your love for me.

Leadership is service, not position.

Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.

There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

Having a child changes everything. All of a sudden you have so much to lose, so much to live for.

Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It’ll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it sets. What could she say? Better me than her. (Cruel)

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.